[Wine] Re: Using WINE to install device drivers for Windows XP

dimesio wineforum-user at winehq.org
Thu Sep 23 09:08:45 CDT 2010


novice wrote:
> 
> I have a dual boot using two separate hard disks. Win XP is installed on sda and Ubuntu 10.04 on sdb. I have installed WINE on sdb.
> 
> Can I use WINE to install a device driver for Win XP from sdb without starting Win XP?
> 
> 

Installers for hardware drivers usually crash in Wine, but even if they didn't, allowing Wine to write to a real Windows registry would render Windows inoperable. Wine stores its registry as a plain text file; Windows doesn't. 

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